Fountain pen



April '7, 1925.

W. LfHOFER FOUNTAIN PEN Filed Sept. 2, 1924 S14/omaha@ l" OV j Patented Apr.7,1925. v l A 1,532,746

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

'FOUNTAIN PEN.

Application led September 2, 1924. Serial No. 735,353.

' vTo all whom z't-may concern: chamber 12 at the frontportion thereof to Be it known that I, WILLIAM LEONARD receive and house the pen point 5. A Horan, a citizen of the United States, residshoulder 13 is formed at the junction of ing at Manhattan, in the county of Riley thc reduced portion 12 with the main por- 60 and State of Kansas, have invented a new tion or chamber of the sleeve and against and useful Fountain Pen, of which the folwhich the shoulder 4 of the pen barrel is lowing is a specification. designed to abut as is shown clearly in This invention relates? to fountain pens Fifr. 1. and the object thereof is to` so construct a bore 14 extends forwardly through the penof-this character as to obviate the necesend of sleeve 10 communicating with the sity of placing the pen and part of the chamber 12 and has mounted therein atubuholder into the inkand avoiding wiping of lar extension 15 which is designed to prothe pen after v/filling and the consequent tect the pen point when the pen is being soiled fingers and clothes. Y l filled, said extension being insertable in the 70 15 Another Object' of the. invention to 'so vink well forthis purpose and it also adapts construct a pen of this, character as to the device to be used for draining the ink' avoidA jamming the point against the bottom bottle to the last drop. .of-the ink stand which frequently injures A removable cap 16 is mounted on the the point and which is so constructed as front end of the sleeve 10 and is here shown 75 v 20 to drain all of the ink from the bottle. having threaded engagement with the sleeve.

With the foregoing and other objects in This cap 16 is designed to protect the tubuview which will appear as the description lar extension 15 and remains in position on proceeds, the invention resides in the com- Sleeve 10 at all times except when it is debination and arrangement of parts and in sired to fill the pen when said cap 16 is 80 the details of construction hereinafter deremoved and the tube 15 inserted in the scribed and claimed, it. being understood ink and the filling operation performed in that changes in the precise embodiment 0f the usual manner. The means for lling the invention herein disclosed may be made the pen constituting no part of this invenwithin the scope 0f what is Claimed withtion it is thought unnecessary to illustrate it. out departing from the spirit of the in- The chamber 12 in which the pen point vention, 5 is housed is of sufficient size to permit In the accompanying drawingsturning of the sleeve 10 when applying or Figure 1 represents a longitudinal Seeremoving it without damaging the pen point. tion of the attachment constituting this in- When it is desired to fill the pen the 90 vent-,ion shown applied, the pen being shown small cap 16 is removed and the tube 15 in side elevation with parts broken out; Y inserted into the 111k and the P611 filled Fig. 2 is a similar view of the attachin the usual manner by compressing the ment detached; filling device. The cap 16 is then screwed Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 1 showing on again and is not. removed except when 95 40 a slightly different form of the invention; the pen 1S to be filled. TO use the pen the Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 2 showentire cap section or sleeve 10 is remove ing the form illustrated in Fig. 3; and and placed on the other end of the pen Fig. 5 is a transverse section taken on barrel 1 in the usual manner. the line 5-5 of F ig. 1. The sleeve-like attachment 10 may be 100 In the form shown in Figs. 1 and 2 an easily applied to any make of pen and will Ordinar fountain pen barrel is shown at 1 obviate the necessity of placing the pen and screw t readed at its front end as shown part of the holder into the ink avoiding at 2 the point carrying portion of the pen wiping` the pen after filling. i.; being shown at 3 having a shoulder4 for In igs. 3 and 4 the attachment 10L is 105 a purpose presently to be described. exactly like the one shown in Figs. 1 and 2 The attachment constituting this invenexcept that the pen point housing chamtion comprises a sleeve 10 internally threadber 12B 1s made tapered toward its front ed on its rear portion as shown at 11 tov lend to conform to the shape of the pen engage the threaded portion 2 of the pen point and merges into the reduced tubular 110 barrel 1 when the attachment is in operaextension 15a. The other parts are the tive position.l This sleeve 10 has a reduced same and are numbered the same except that the exponent a is used the reference numerals.

I clami:

in connection with 1. 1L.V fountain pen attachment compris-it ing a sleeve for lnsertlon on a pene barrel and having a chamber to house the pen point with a tube extending longltudinally from the front end of said chamber to fa cilitate lillinorrcof the pen and to protect thev point thereof.

2. A fountain pen attachment comprising asleeve for insertion on a pen barrel and having .f1 chamber to house the pen point with a tube extending longitudinally from the front. end of said chamber to facilitate filling of the point thereof, and on said sleeve over pen and to protect the arremovzgble cap mounted said tube. e

WILLIAM LEONARD nonna.

lVitnesses:

' J. MAnDooK,

HARRY L. ZERBY. 

